Web Finder LE Settings


 

The Preferences Dialog at a Glance

 

 

Web Finder LE preferences provide options for you to customise various parts of the application.

 

Browser Settings:

The are two options for choosing which browser Web Finder LE will use to retrieve search results.

Default Browser:

This option is only available with MacOS 8 or later. To use your default or favourite browser then choose this option.

Browser Toggle:

This option allows Web Finder LE to use more than one browser and to toggle easily between each when retrieving results.

Browser Toggling must be enabled to use the "New Window" feature.

 

Setting up Browser Toggling

To set up browser toggling, first click the "Browser toggle" radio button to enable it, then from the list box select the browsers you wish to enable by double clicking on them. You can enable as many browsers as you like from the list (ie. if you only want to use one browser then only enable the icon for it and leave the rest disabled.)

If you double click on an icon of a web browser that you do not have installed the browser icon will not enable and you will get a message informing you that the browser plugin failed to load.

 

Browser Enabled

 

Browser Disabled

Click "OK", the browser toggle button will now be enabled and display an icon for one of the enabled browsers. Clicking this icon will choose another browser and so on. If only two browsers are enabled then it will switch backwards and forwards between them, if only one browser is enabled then it will not change. The browser whose icon is showing when you perform a search will be used to retrieve the results.

 

Recent Menu Settings

The Recent Menu, as described in the previous section stores a list of phrases and keywords that you have recently searched for. To customise the length of the menu, change the number in the "Length" field. By default, the Recent menu remembers the last 10 keywords but it can be changed to as little as 1 or as many as 999.

Pressing the "Clear" button will erase all the keywords from the Menu.

 

 

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